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Jewish American Heritage Month

May is Jewish American Heritage Month. Explore a selection items in the Smithsonian's collections that reflect the Jewish American experience as well as the significant role Jewish Americans and those with Jewish American heritage have played in shaping the nation's history and identity. Learn about six Jewish American artifacts in the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History that speak to the long history of Jewish presence first in British North America and then the United States.


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Isaac Mayer Wise

Maurice Sendak

Albert Einstein

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen

Mel Brooks

Jonas Salk

Neil Simon

(Native American), from the series You Don't Have to be Jewish to Love Levy's

Jerry Seinfeld

Jewish Welfare Board Uniform

Julius Rosenwald

Elie Wiesel

Helena Rubinstein

Milton Glaser

Benny Goodman

Woody Allen

Neil Diamond

Richard Avedon Self-Portrait

Louis Brandeis

Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Solomon Faiman reading Yiddish newspaper in doorway of shop on Lombard Street

Tony Kushner

J. D. Salinger

Tune In Groucho

Larry King

Saul Bellow

Marx Brothers

Sid Caesar

Rube Goldberg

Isaac Asimov

Arthur Joseph Goldberg

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